In libreoffice calc 3.4.3, horizontal scrollbars do not work and only 80% of their height is displayed. This is the case in dialog boxes as well as the main window.

A search indicates that this related to the Oxygen theme. I tried all of the themes in aptosid but all behaved the same. One person said that using the GTK+ theme corrected the problem for him but I do not see that theme available.

I also tried renaming ~/.libreoffice so it would create a new one; this did not help.

I see the problem on one machine with the nvidia blob and also on another with intel graphics.

Another workaround is to change the Widget style under System Settings/Application Appearance/Style/Widget Style to anything other than Oxygen. Lately, I've been using the Plastique Widget style along with libreoffice-kde without problems. But this change will affect your widget style in all applications that use KDE/QT to draw them.

I have found that you can keep libreoffice-kde and use qtcurve widget style to fix this issue nicely. The default libreoffice widgets are ugly otherwise.

mz

Post subject:Posted: 15.10.2011, 14:53

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Thanks for the qtcurve hint. Everything works and it doesn't look like 1995.

belze

Post subject:Posted: 15.10.2011, 21:42

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Fixed? It does NOT work. We have 2 workaround so far; the best imho is the middle button trick. I want kde integration (file pick up mostly!) so disablig it removing libreoffice-kde is not a good point.
Using another gtk engine is a better choice, but is still a workaround not a solution.
The solution will arrive when libreoffice-kde and gtk-oxygen engine will work together.

mz

Post subject:Posted: 16.10.2011, 13:55

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Agreed. Should have said: workarounds work for me. Do you know if there is an open bug report on this?